title: Enhancing habitat to help the plight of the bumblebee.
abstract: Modern farming has caused considerable declines in UK bumblebee populations, and, while options exist for farmers to increase the quantity of bee-friendly habitat, uptake has been low. Robin Blake explains how existing habitats on farms could be enhanced for the benefit of bumblebees.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK. r.blake@reading.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robin J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Blake
authors.forename: Duncan B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Westbury
authors.forename: Ben A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Woodcock
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.forename: Simon G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000254:growth & development*; D017753:Ecosystem; D011157:Population Dynamics